Comparison of the Guarded Tablet, and the perception there from by every individual's mind of his daily fate and portion and lot, to the daily perception (of the Divine decree) by Gabriel, on whom be peace, from the Most Great Tablet.

چون ملک از لوح محفوظ آن خرد ** هر صباحی درس هر روزه برد

Like the Angel, the intellect receives (reads) every morning its daily lesson from the Guarded Tablet.

بر عدم تحریرها بین بی‌بنان ** و از سوادش حیرت سوداییان

Behold the inscriptions made without (use of) fingers upon non-existence and the amazement of the madmen at the blackness of them.

هر کسی شد بر خیالی ریش گاو ** گشته در سودای گنجی کنج‌کاو

Every one is infatuated with some phantasy and digs in corners in mad desire for a (buried) treasure.

از خیالی گشته شخصی پرشکوه ** روی آورده به معدنهای کوه 320

By a phantasy one person is filled with (desire for) magnificence and turns his face towards the mines (of precious ore) in the mountains;

وز خیالی آن دگر با جهد مر ** رو نهاده سوی دریا بهر در

And, (inspired) by a phantasy, another sets his face with bitter toil towards the sea for the sake of pearls;